Message when running yum update

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 19:20:10 UTC 2012


On 06/30/2012 12:57 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 12:44 -0600, JD wrote:
>> # yum -y update
>> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, downloadonly, etckeeper,
>> langpacks, presto, priorities, product-id, refresh-packagekit,
>>                 : subscription-manager
>> Updating certificate-based repositories.
>> Unable to read consumer identity
>>
>> This machine has not been registered and therefore has
>> no access to security and other critical updates. Please
>> register using subscription-manager.
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This is the first time I see the registration thing.
>> Why is this being done?
>> Why does anyone have to register their machine?
>> I see no reason for this other than monitoring people's machines.
>> This is totally unacceptable.
> I'm guessing the subscription-manager yum plugin is for RHEL and
> shouldn't be installed on a Fedora machine.  And Red Hat does want to
> validate that your RHEL subscription before using them for updates.
>
> Anyhow, a quick check in yum shows that both product-id and
> subscription-manager aren't in the Fedora repositories.  Removing them
> (again, assuming you're on a Fedora machine) should fix the error
> message.
>
> Jonathan
>
>

Thank you Jonathan. That was it.
subscription-manager-1.0.3-1.fc16.i686
It came from fc16 updates repo.
To wit:
# yum list installed subscription-manager product-id
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, downloadonly, etckeeper, 
langpacks, presto, priorities, product-id, refresh-packagekit,
               : subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity

This machine has not been registered and therefore has
no access to security and other critical updates. Please
register using subscription-manager.

Installed Packages
subscription-manager.i686 
1.0.3-1.fc16                                          @updates

I will remove it.


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